1/ Why the price to sales ratio (P/S) is a useful tool for crypto investors 👇

The price to sales ratio compares a protocol’s market cap to its revenues. A low ratio could imply that the protocol is undervalued and vice versa.

2/ The P/S ratio is an ideal valuation method for early-stage protocols, which often have little or no net income.

Instead, the P/S ratio focuses on the usage of a protocol, by tracking the total fees paid (revenue) by the users of its service. More info: https://t.co/XlHI7XPTvI
3/ We’re in a historically unique position, with early-stage & high-growth startups operating transparently on-chain.

This transparency makes it possible to find protocols with high usage relative to market cap.
4/ Top dapps from Token Terminal sorted based on the price to sales (P/S) ratio.

Note: Maker has gone from a high P/S ratio to #3 in a matter of months after raising the stability fees for DAI.

Also, two currently similar AMMs (Uniswap & SushiSwap) have the lowest P/S ratios.
5/ Let's look at the P/S ratios from a historical perspective.

The P/S ratio is calculated by dividing a project’s fully-diluted market cap by its annualized revenues.

The metric itself does not tell us about the growth patterns in a protocol’s market cap or revenues.
6/ Uniswap’s historical price to sales (P/S) ratio (right Y-axis) and market cap (left Y-axis).

There seems to be a pretty direct correlation between the (low) P/S ratio & market cap --> revenues have been consistently high since the launch of the $UNI token.
7/ Uniswap’s historical price to sales (P/S) ratio (right Y-axis) and daily total revenue (left Y-axis).

Uniswap’s daily revenues have been consistently high during Q3-Q4 --> fluctuations in market cap have been the primary driver for changes in the P/S ratio.
8/ Sushiswap’s historical price to sales (P/S) ratio (right Y-axis) and market cap (left Y-axis).

There does not seem to be a direct correlation between the (low) P/S ratio and market cap.
9/ Sushiswap’s historical price to sales (P/S) ratio (right Y-axis) and daily total revenue (left Y-axis).

Surges in Sushiswap’s daily revenues have trended its P/S ratio lower both during its launch and also more recently.
10/ Compound’s historical price to sales (P/S) ratio (right Y-axis) and market cap (left Y-axis).

Compound’s market cap has been stable since the launch of $COMP. Its P/S ratio trended quickly to a low double-digit figure --> revenues spiked after the launch of its token.
11/ Compound’s historical price to sales (P/S) ratio (right Y-axis) and daily total revenue (left Y-axis).

Compound’s daily revenues spiked up significantly with the launch of the $COMP token and associated liquidity mining.
12/ Kyber’s historical price to sales (P/S) ratio (right Y-axis) and market cap (left Y-axis).

There seems to have been a pretty direct correlation between the P/S ratio & market cap during the early days --> revenues were low initially, but have been on an upward trend since.
13/ Kyber’s historical price to sales (P/S) ratio (right Y-axis) and daily total revenue (left Y-axis).

Kyber’s daily revenues were relatively low in the beginning but have been on an upward trend for the past two years.
14/ Synthetix’s historical price to sales (P/S) ratio (right Y-axis) and market cap (left Y-axis).

After the launch of Synthetix v2, the protocol had a relatively low market cap & high P/S ratio --> revenues were low initially, but have trended upward during the past quarter.
15/ Synthetix’s historical price to sales (P/S) ratio (right Y-axis) and daily total revenue (left Y-axis).

Synthetix’s daily revenues have been been on an upward trend during Q3-Q4, after a slower start in Q2.
16/ Ethereum’s historical price to sales (P/S) ratio (right Y-axis) and market cap (left Y-axis).

Market cap of Ethereum is a long way from the highs of 2017, yet its P/S ratio is on par with leading DeFi protocols --> significant growth in revenues during the past 6 months.
17/ Ethereum’s historical price to sales (P/S) ratio (right Y-axis) and daily total revenue (left Y-axis).

Ethereum’s daily revenues have been consistently high during Q2-Q4, while its market cap has yet to catch-up with the growth of the Ethereum ecosystem.
18/ The performance of Token Terminal’s price to sales ratio-weighted index.

It’s one of the first fundamentals-based indexes in the crypto market.

Source: https://t.co/ZeVImRsVAa
19/ The historical composition of the TTI index.

It shows that Compound, Uniswap, and MakerDAO currently hold the largest weightings in the index portfolio.
20/ We recently posted a proposal for the TTI to be included in the @indexcoop product offering — you can view the proposal here:

https://t.co/JzYpuFE0yY
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The benign product is sovereign programmable money, which is historically a niche interest of folks with a relatively clustered set of beliefs about the state, the literary merit of Snow Crash, and the utility of gold to the modern economy.

This product has narrow appeal and, accordingly, is worth about as much as everything else on a 486 sitting in someone's basement is worth.

The other product is investment scams, which have approximately the best product market fit of anything produced by humans. In no age, in no country, in no city, at no level of sophistication do people consistently say "Actually I would prefer not to get money for nothing."

This product needs the exchanges like they need oxygen, because the value of it is directly tied to having payment rails to move real currency into the ecosystem and some jurisdictional and regulatory legerdemain to stay one step ahead of the banhammer.
I've just read one of the most lucid, wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary critiques of cryptocurrency and blockchain I've yet to encounter. 1/


It comes from David "DSHR" Rosenthal, a distinguished technologist whose past achievements including helping to develop X11 and the core technologies for Nvidia.

https://t.co/tkAMShno4k 2/

Rosenthal's critique is a transcript of a lecture he gave to Stanford's EE380 class, adapted from a December 2021 talk for an investor conference. 3/

It is a bang-up-to-date synthesis of many of the critical writings on the subject, glued together with Rosenthal's own deep technical expertise. He calls it "Can We Mitigate Cryptocurrencies' Externalities?"

The presence of "externalities" in Rosenthal's title is key. 4/

Rosenthal identifies blockchainism's core ideology as emerging from "the libertarian culture of Silicon Valley and the cypherpunks," and states that "libertarianism's attraction is based on ignoring externalities."

This is an important critique of libertarianism. 5/

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The Swastik is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon. Swastik has been Sanatan Dharma’s symbol of auspiciousness – mangalya since time immemorial.


The name swastika comes from Sanskrit (Devanagari: स्वस्तिक, pronounced: swastik) &denotes “conducive to wellbeing or auspicious”.
The word Swastik has a definite etymological origin in Sanskrit. It is derived from the roots su – meaning “well or auspicious” & as meaning “being”.


"सु अस्ति येन तत स्वस्तिकं"
Swastik is de symbol through which everything auspicios occurs

Scholars believe word’s origin in Vedas,known as Swasti mantra;

"🕉स्वस्ति ना इन्द्रो वृधश्रवाहा
स्वस्ति ना पूषा विश्ववेदाहा
स्वस्तिनास्तरक्ष्यो अरिश्तनेमिही
स्वस्तिनो बृहस्पतिर्दधातु"


It translates to," O famed Indra, redeem us. O Pusha, the beholder of all knowledge, redeem us. Redeem us O Garudji, of limitless speed and O Bruhaspati, redeem us".

SWASTIK’s COSMIC ORIGIN

The Swastika represents the living creation in the whole Cosmos.


Hindu astronomers divide the ecliptic circle of cosmos in 27 divisions called
https://t.co/sLeuV1R2eQ this manner a cross forms in 4 directions in the celestial sky. At centre of this cross is Dhruva(Polestar). In a line from Dhruva, the stars known as Saptarishi can be observed.